Category: Technology

WARNING: You’re going to be messing with hard drives. You’ll probably be doing most of this as root. As the old adage goes, “The good thing about Linux is that it does exactly what you tell it to do. The bad thing about Linux is that it does exactly what you tell it to do.” I strongly recommend you to disconnect/remove drives you don’t want touched during this procedure so you don’t inadvertently wipe a disk you don’t want wiped.

Note: at the time of this writing, KDE Neon is based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.

I was having an issue where the fcitx configurator window would pop up at login, which I did not want. I edited the Exec= line as shown, which seems to have alleviated the problem:

...
#Exec=fcitx-autostart
Exec=fcitx
...

Not sure why fcitx-autostart also opens fcitx-configtool at login. If I close everything and run fcitx-autostart from xterm, it does start the little systray applet thing, but not the configurator. From what I can tell, it only opens the configurator when it runs at login.

If you’re you’ve got PasswordAuthentication set to no in your sshd_config, you need to disable it temporarily to copy the keys as the user you normally use using ssh-copy-id git@localhost. Once the key is successfully copied, then you will no longer be prompted for a password.. and you can re-disable Password authentication.